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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Broken down acts.






2. A character struggles against some outside force.






3. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






5. The selection of words in a literary work.






6. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






7. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






8. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






9. A short saying with a moral.






10. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






11. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






12. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






13. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






15. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






17. A strong pause within a line.






18. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






19. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






20. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






21. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






23. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






24. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






25. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






27. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






28. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






29. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






30. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






31. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






32. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






33. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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34. The time and place of a story or play.






35. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






36. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






37. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






38. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






39. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






40. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






41. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






42. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






43. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






44. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






45. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






46. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






47. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






48. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






49. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.